When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This illustrates a phenomenon we also see in the tiny world of molecules.

A league of scientists are calling for a critical discussion on the dangers of life forms made up of 'mirror-image molecules', because of the significant risks these creations may pose to global ...

“A mirror peptide will not be readily degraded, which is why they could be great as therapeutics,” says co-author John Glass, a synthetic biologist at JCVI. “We see absolutely no reason to ...

Laura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial College London.

A group of researchers has published new findings in Science Policy Forum on potential risks from the development of mirror bacteria—synthetic organisms in which all molecules have reversed ...

Warning: contains spoilers for The Mirror and the Light episode 5. What was Henry trying to tell Cromwell by recalling that business with the untaken trip to the Weald? That he’d been searching ...

The Mirror newspaper is to merge with glossy magazine OK! in a fresh attempt by the publisher to cut costs. Plans to combine journalists across the two Reach publications were announced internally ...